OXFORD:

E. PICKARD HALL, M.A., AND J. H. STACY,

PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

A. L. CROSS

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CONTENTS.

BOOK I.

SEPTEMBER 1654-JUNE 1657.

HISTORY:-OLIVER'S FIRST PROTECTORATE CONTINUED.

BIOGRAPHY:-MILTON'S LIFE AND SECRETARYSHIP THROUGH THE FIRST

PROTECTORATE CONTINUED.

CHAP.

I. SECTION I. Oliver and his First Parliament: Sept. 3, 1654-

Jan. 22, 1654-5.-Meeting of the First Parliament of the Protec-

torate: Its Composition: Anti-Oliverians numerous in it: Their

Four Days' Debate in challenge of Cromwell's Powers: Debate

stopped by Cromwell: His Speech in the Painted Chamber:

Secession of some from the Parliament: Acquiescence of the

rest by Adoption of The Recognition: Spirit and Proceedings of

the Parliament still mainly Anti-Oliverian: Their Four Months'

Work in Revision of the Protectoral Constitution: Chief Debates

in those Four Months: Question of the Protector's Negatives:

Other Incidental Work of the Parliament: Question of Religious

Toleration and of the Suppression of Heresies and Blasphemies :

Committee and Sub-Committee on this Subject: Baxter's Par-

ticipation: Tendency to a Limited Toleration only, and Vote

against the Protector's Prerogative of more : Case of John Biddle,

the Socinian.-Insufficiency now of our former Synopsis of

English Sects and Heresies: New Sects and Denominations :

The Fifth-Monarchy Men: The Ranters: The Muggletonians

and other Stray Fanatics: Boehmenists and other Mystics :

The Quakers or Friends: Account of George Fox, and Sketch

of the History of the Quakers to the year 1654.-Policy of the

Parliament with their Bill for a New Constitution: Parliament

outwitted by Cromwell and dissolved: No Result .

I. SECTION II. Between the Parliaments, or the Time of Arbitrari-

ness: Jan. 22, 1654-55-Sept. 17, 1656.- Avowed "Arbi-

trariness" of this Stage of the Protectorate, and Reasons for it.

-First Meeting of Cromwell and his Council after the Dissolu-

tion: Major-General Overton in Custody: Other Arrests:

Suppression of a wide Republican Conspiracy and of Royalist

Risings in Yorkshire and the West: Revenue Ordinance and

Mr. Cony's Opposition at Law: Deference of Foreign Govern-

ments Blake in the Mediterranean: Massacre of the Pied-

montese Protestants: Details of the Story and of Cromwell's

Proceedings in consequence: Penn in the Spanish West Indies:

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His Repulse from Hispaniola and Landing in Jamaica: Decla-

ration of War with Spain and Alliance with France: Scheme of

the Government of England by Major-Generals: List of them

and Summary of their Police-System: Decimation Tax on the

Royalists, and other Measures in terrorem: Consolidation of

the London Newspaper Press: Proceedings of the Commission

of Ejectors and of the Commission of Triers: View of Cromwell's

Established Church of England, with Enumeration of its various

Components: Extent of Toleration outside the Established

Church The Protector's Treatment of the Roman Catholics,

the Episcopalians, the Anti-Trinitarians, the Quakers, and the

Jews: State of the English Universities and Schools under the

Protectorate Cromwell's Patronage of Learning: List of Eng-

lish Men of Letters alive in 1656, and Account of their Diverse

Relations to Cromwell: Poetical Panegyrics on him and his

Protectorate.-New Arrangements for the Government of Scot-

land: Lord Broghill's Presidency there for Cromwell: General

State of the Country: Continued Struggle between the Reso-

lutioners and the Protesters for Kirk-Supremacy: Independency

and Quakerism in Scotland: More Extreme Anomalies there :

Story of "Jock of Broad Scotland": Brisk Intercourse between

Scotland and London: Mission of Mr. James Sharp.-Ireland

from 1654 to 1656.-Glimpse of the Colonies

SECTION III. Oliver and the First Session of his Second Parlia-

ment: Sept. 17, 1656-June 26, 1657.- -Second Parliament

of the Protectorate called: Vane's Healing Question and another

Anti-Oliverian Pamphlet: Precautions and Arrests: Meeting

of the Parliament: Its Composition: Summary of Cromwell's

Opening Speech: Exclusion of Ninety-three Anti-Oliverian

Members: Decidedly Oliverian Temper of the rest: Question

of the Excluded Members: Their Protest: Summary of the

Proceedings of the Parliament for Five Months (Sept. 1656—

Feb. 1656-7): Administration of Cromwell and his Council

during those Months: Approaches to Disagreement between

Cromwell and the Parliament in the Case of James Nayler and

on the Question of Continuation of the Militia by Major-

Generals: No Rupture-The Sesby-Sindercombe Plot.-Sir

Christopher Pack's Motion for a New Constitution (Feb. 23,

1656-7): Its Issue in the Petition and Advice and Offer of the

Crown to Cromwell: Division of Public Opinion on the King-

ship Question: Opposition among the Army Officers: Crom-

well's Neutral Attitude: His Reception of the Offer: His long

Hesitations and several Speeches over the Affair: His Final

Refusal (May 8, 1657): Ludlow's Story of the Cause.-Harrison

and the Fifth-Monarchy Men: Venner's Outbreak at Mile-End-

Green.-Proposed New Constitution of the Petition and Advice

retained in the form of a Continued Protectorate: Supplements

to the Petition and Advice: Bills assented to by the Protector,

June 9 Votes for the Spanish War.-Treaty Offensive and

Defensive with France against Spain: Dispatch of English

Auxiliary Army, under Reynolds, for Service in Flanders:

Blake's Action in Santa Cruz Bay.-" Killing no Murder":

Additional and Explanatory Petition and Advice: Abstract of

the Articles of the New Constitution as arranged by the two

Documents: Cromwell's completed Assent to the New Consti-

tution, and his Assent to other Bills, June 26, 1657: Inaugura-

tion of the Second Protectorate that day: Close of the First

Session of the Second Parliament

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II. Milton's Life and Secretaryship through the First Protectorate

continued: September 1654-June 1657.- -SECTION I.: From

September 1654 to January 1654-5, or Through Oliver's First

Parliament-Ulac's Hague Edition of Milton's Defensio Se-

cunda, with the Fides Publica of Morus annexed: Preface by

Dr. Crantzius to the Reprint: Ulac's own Preface of Self-

Defence: Account of Morus's Fides Publica, with Extracts:

His Citation of Testimonies to his Character: Testimony of

Diodati of Geneva: Abrupt Ending of the Book at this Point,

with Ulac's Explanation of the Cause.-Particulars of the

Arrest and Imprisonment of Milton's Friend Overton.-Three

more Latin State-Letters by Milton for Oliver (Nos. XLIX.-

LI.): No State-Letters by Milton for the next Three Months:

Milton then busy on a Reply to the Fides Publica of Morus

II. SECTION II. From January 1654-5 to September 1656, or

Through the Period of Arbitrariness.- -Letter to Milton from

Leo de Aitzema: Milton's Reply: Letter to Ezekiel Spanheim

at Geneva: Milton's Genevese Recollections and Acquaint-

ances: Two more of Milton's Latin State-Letters (Nos. LII.,

LIII.): Small Amount of Milton's Despatch-Writing for Crom-

well hitherto.-Reduction of Official Salaries, and Proposal to

Reduce Milton's to £150 a Year: Actual Commutation of his

£288 a Year at Pleasure into £200 for Life: Orders of the

Protector and Council relating to the Piedmontese Massacre,

May 1655 Sudden Demand on Milton's Pen in that Business:

His Letter of Remonstrance from the Protector to the Duke of

Savoy, with Ten other Letters to Foreign States and Princes on

the same Subject (Nos. LIV.-LXIV.): His Sonnet on the

Subject. Publication of the Supplementum to More's Fides

Publica: Account of the Supplementum, with Extracts: Mil-

ton's Answer to the Fides Publica and the Supplementum

together in his Pro Se Defensio, Aug. 1655: Account of that

Book, with Specimens: Milton's Disbelief in Morus's Denials

of the Authorship of the Regii Sanguinis Clamor: His Reasons,

and his Reassertions of the Charge in a Modified Form: His

Notices of Dr. Crantzius and Ulac: His Renewed Onslaughts

on Morus: His Repetition of the Bontia Accusation and others:

His Examination of Morus's Printed Testimonials: Ferocity of

the Book to the last: Its Effects on Morus.-Question of the

Real Authorship of the Regii Sanguinis Clamor and of the

Amount of Morus's Concern in it: The Du Moulin Family:

Dr. Peter Du Moulin the Younger the Real Author of the

Regii Sanguinis Clamor, but Morus the Active Editor and the

Writer of the Dedicatory Epistle: Du Moulin's own Account

of the whole Affair: His close Contact with Milton all the

while, and Dread of being found out.-Calm in Milton's Life

after the Cessation of the Morus-Salmasius Controversy: Home-

Life in Petty France: Dabblings of the Two Nephews in

Literature: John Phillips's Satyr against Hypocrites: Frequent

Visitors at Petty France: Marvell, Needham, Cyriack Skinner,

&c. The Viscountess Ranelagh, Mr. Richard Jones, and the

Boyle Connexion: Dr. Peter Du Moulin in that Connexion :

Milton's Private Sonnet on his Blindness, his Two Sonnets to

Cyriack Skinner, and his Sonnet to young Lawrence: Explana-

tion of these Four Sonnets.-Scriptum Domini Protectoris

contra Hispanos: Thirteen more Latin State-Letters of Milton

for the Protector (Nos. LXV.-LXXVII.), with Special Account

of Count Bundt and the Swedish Embassy in London: Count

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Bundt and Mr. Milton. Increase of Light Literature in

London: Erotic Publications: John Phillips in Trouble for

such: Edward Phillips's London Edition of the Poems of

Drummond of Hawthornden: Milton's Cognisance of the same.

-Henry Oldenburg and Mr. Richard Jones at Oxford: Letters

of Milton to Jones and Oldenburg.-Thirteen more State-

Letters of the Milton Series (Nos. LXXVIII.-XC.): Import-

ance of some of them

II. SECTION III.: From September 1656 to June 1657, or Through

the First Session of Oliver's Second Parliament.- Another

Letter from Milton to Mr. Richard Jones: Departure of Lady

Ranelagh for Ireland: Letter from Milton to Peter Heimbach :

Milton's Second Marriage: His Second Wife, Katharine Wood-

cock Letter to Emeric Bigot: Milton's Library and the

Byzantine Historians: M. Stoupe: Ten more State-Letters by

Milton for the Protector (Nos. XCI.-C.): Morland, Meadows,

Durie, Lockhart, and other Diplomatists of the Protector, back

in London: More Embassies and Dispatches over Land and

Sea Milton Standing and Waiting: His Thoughts about the

Protectorate generally

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BOOK II.

JUNE 1657-SEPTEMBER 1658.

HISTORY:-OLIVER'S SECOND PROTECTorate.

BIOGRAPHY:-MILTON'S LIFE AND SECRETARYSHIP THROUGH THE SECOND

PROTECTORATE.

CHAP.

I. Oliver's Second Protectorate: June 26, 1657-Sept. 3, 1658.-

Regal Forms and Ceremonial of the Second Protectorate: The

Protector's Family: The Privy Council: Retirement of Lam-

bert Death of Admiral Blake: The French Alliance and

Successes in Flanders: Siege and Capture of Mardike: Other

Foreign Relations of the Protectorate: Special Envoys to Den-

mark, Sweden, and the United Provinces: Aims of Cromwell's

Diplomacy in Northern and Eastern Europe : Progress of his

English Church-Establishment: Controversy between John

Goodwin and Marchamont Needham : The Protector and the

Quakers: Death of John Lilburne Death of Sexby: Marriage

of the Duke of Buckingham to Mary Fairfax: Marriages of

Cromwell's Two Youngest Daughters: Preparations for another

Session of the Parliament: Writs for the Other House: List of

Cromwell's Peers.-Reassembling of the Parliament, Jan. 20,

1657-8 Cromwell's Opening Speech, with the Supplement by

Fiennes Anti-Oliverian Spirit of the Commons: Their Oppo-

sition to the Other House: Cromwell's Speech of Remonstrance:

Perseverance of the Commons in their Opposition: Cromwell's

Last Speech and Dissolution of the Parliament, Feb. 4, 1657-8.

-State of the Government after the Dissolution: The Dangers,

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